Information Literacy (2 cr)
Code: 7K00GH76-3003
General information
Enrolment period
27.05.2025 - 11.08.2025
Timing
04.08.2025 - 12.10.2025
Credits
2 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Unit
Nursing
Campus
TAMK Main Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Nursing and Health Care, Nursing
Teachers
- Lotta Markkula
- Sanna-Mari Kämäräinen
- Päivi Lukin
Person in charge
Sanna Eironen
Groups
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24ASH2A
Objectives (course unit)
The course prepares students for reading, evaluating and utilising scientific information in nursing.
After completing the course, the student
• Is able to identify, search, evaluate and utilise health care information sources.
• Understands the importance of evidence-based practice in nursing.
• Knows evidence-based clinical guidelines in health care.
Content (course unit)
• Scientific literacy and source criticism
• Evidence-based practice in nursing
• Clinical guidelines in health care
• Structured data search and key health care databases
Assessment criteria, pass/fail (course unit)
Pass: The student
• Knows basics of the structured data search.
• Understands the importance of evidence-based practice in nursing.
• Can assess the reliability of the searched information.
• Identifies evidence-based clinical guidelines in health care.
Fail: The student
• Does not know basics of the structured data search.
• Does not understand the importance of evidence-based practice in nursing.
• Cannot assess the reliability of the searched information.
• Does not identify evidence-based clinical guidelines in health care.
Assessment scale
0-5